Of course, ‘My vegetable love’ starts line 11 of Andrew Marvell’s erotic poem ‘To His Coy Mistress’ (1681). Poised rudely between noun and adjective, the Lover’s ‘vegetable love’ apparently grows ‘Vaster than empires, and more slow’ (Line 12). In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the noun vegetable, as we understand it today, is more commonly known as an herb. Therefore, the Lover’s manhood additional reading pleasure

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The official blog of Early Modern Exchanges that studies the diverse cultural, historical, economic and social exchanges between England and Europe, European countries, the Old World and the New in the period 1450-1800.